Dark matter, Mach's ether and the QCD vacuum

[wolram]

I have found this paper, it seems interesting although i haven't read it all yet arXiv:1507.00460 [pdf]
Dark matter, Mach's ether and the QCD vacuum
Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji
Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

 

[Garth]

Thank you wolram for that link.

His basic conjecture is,

Mach’s ether, dark matter and QCD vacuum are three modes of existence of a same entity."

He uses Einstein and Lemaitre's comments to builds his case, which may be now a little outdated.

I also found it a bit confusing as later he says,

So, if our conjecture is correct, one can say that the main discovery of LCDM is that the Mach’s ether (dark matter + dark energy) not only exists, which hitherto had never been clearly established, but also represents 95% of the content of the universe. What a beautiful confirmation of the Einstein’s statement that “according to the general theory of relativity, space without ether is unthinkable”!

So is he suggesting DM or DE as 'Mach's ether", or both?

Personally I would have taken the Brans Dicke route and suggested that their scalar field might be called 'Mach's ether' and is the same as DE, and possibly the QCD vacuum, rather than the same as DM. But then you would have to find a way of having a massive enough scalar field without it perturbing solar system GR experiments...

Garth